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"When we start, it goes really again for everything," said the Reds boss. "The competition will make the intensity. So it’s not about ‘oh, Liverpool have to win two games'. By the way, we have to win two games when we start – it’s not ‘only two’, it’s two. We have to win them.

"We have to do it, unfortunately, without the best boost in the world and the best kick in your ass in the right moment in the world, from the Anfield crowd. But that’s how it is. It’s 100 per cent (that) the perfect package of football is a full, packed Anfield stadium, two really good teams, big fight, super goals and at the end Liverpool win. That’s the perfect matchday.

"So, a lot of these things are possible but Anfield will not be packed for a while. So that’s what we have to accept, that’s the only thing.

Klopp arrives at Melwood as Liverpool get set to begin one-on-one training (Image: PA)

Curtis Jones arrives at Melwood as he steps up his return to training (Image: REUTERS)

"I know, football behind closed doors, of course it’s not the same. We all love it when we have contact, when we get cheered up by the people, when they push us through the yards and all that stuff.

"We love that but we cannot have it. And it looks like it will be possible – and it is in Germany already possible – to play behind closed doors."

There is a worry that players could take longer than they have to get back to match sharpness after the two-month lay-off.

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And Klopp said of the news earlier this week: "I was over the moon, I would say. I couldn’t wait for a while now, so I am really happy that we are able to do this again – going back to Melwood, having small group training and stuff like this.

"It will be good fun for the boys, they can’t wait as well. The reaction in the (players’) group was exceptional in the moment when it was clear.

"That football is closer to coming back I think is really a good sign for people as well. I always said we don’t want to rush anything, but I don’t think it is rushed."